PHP East Midlands Unconference 2016
26 Nov 2016 at Queens Building

Great effort for a first talk. A bit short initially, but sparked an interesting discussion.

I didn't know anything about this - and now I do! I can think of lots of applications for it too so succesfull talk, thanks!

This was a look at replacing a legacy application with new code by wrapping the old application in the new one. There was a good mix of information here from the why and how to do it with some technical details on how to get started, with some good questions and discussions afterwards from the audience.

I think this serves as a good introduction to the concept of functional style programming in PHP.

There were some parts in there which I considered incorrect or perhaps irrelevant - the suggestion that functional programming should/can be about getting things down to 1 line or for speed benefits I think were incorrect, and some more time needs to be spent on the benefits of functional programming - absense of state or side effects making code less error prone and more testable for example.

The examples on using anonymous functions and functions without side effects (such as array_sum) were a good start on programming in a functional style in PHP though and should encourage some more people on look into it further.

Really good talk on lessons learned entering the industry for the first time, with a good discussion at the end too. Some of it was a bit specific to certain technologies but it was focused on general principles which is good.

Going to be giving AWS Lambda a go now.

Some excellent WordPress information that I didn't know about.

An interesting talk and a good solution to a problem.

Will be trying this solution on my own stuff

lots of lovely tools and ideas presented clearly

An insightful and honest talk, a good level of humour, and things that were really important to someone young in the industry who's just getting started with everything.

For someone new to speaking, the nerves didn't show, and it felt like you were a confident speaker.

For improvement, I'd suggest speaking slightly slower and slightly clearer, and maybe expand a bit more on each section with a touch more detail.